(US) Any secondary roof timber, such as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.
(US) Any secondary roof timber, such as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.
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The set of rafters (sloped beams) of a building or similar construction.
(Scottish) The lower part of rafters, that were set on the ground in old houses.
(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
(architectural element) A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
(UK) One of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip roof.
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